My mom's friend just had a baby, and i offered my services to take some shots of her newborn. I am not sure how i should go about taking photos of her baby! i assume i would get some great shots why the toddler is sleeping, but i dont know how good the lighting is at the house and i dont have a large flash. I will be limited to using my 50mm 1.8 and hopefully i will have my tamron 28-75 f2.8 that i just ordered by the time she would want me to come over. Any tips?

are you going to ask the baby 100 questions about what lens you should get next?

sorry i couldn't resist

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:lmao::lmao:

The 1.8 would probably be your best choice if the lighting is poor. But I'm sure there are windows and such that the baby / crib can be moved to to allow for better lighting. So I wouldn't be too worried about that.

Search the interweb for examples of poses and images to get inspiration from

Your 50mm will be fine. Bring a tripod if you are worried, and do some longer exposures. It is a new born, so it shouldnt be too mobile.

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errrr... noooo.

never a good idea to shot people w/ a long exposure.

how about... a flash! not a "large" one? do you have a... small.. one?

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The pop-up flash is small enough

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Yea, small and.. unusable!

If you really want to use a pop up, you COULD buy a Gary Fong puffer for 30 bucks. It's a diffuser that fits over your garbag- i mean pop up flash.
The only downside if that you're using a product made by a glorified real estate agent who calls himself a photographer